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• ISMAʿILISM iv - x

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• ISMAʿILISM xi. ISMAʿILI JURISPRUDENCE

  Ismail K. Poonawala

  The Ismaʿili system of jurisprudence was founded after the establishment of the Fatimid dynasty in North Africa.

• ISMAʿILISM xii. ISMAʿILI HADITH

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  See HADITH iii.

• ISMAʿILISM xiii. ISMAʿILI LITERATURE IN PERSIAN AND ARABIC

  Ismail K. Poonawala

  Ismaʿili literature (all the written products of scholarly disciplines delineated by learning, religion, and science) refers to the literary production of more than a millennium.

• ISMAʿILISM xiv. ISMAʿILISM IN GINĀN LITERATURE

  Ali Sultaan Ali Asani

  Nezāri Ismaʿili texts from the Indian Subcontinent exhibit an adaptive response to the region’s complex religious, literary, and cultural environment.

• ISMAʿILISM xv. NEZĀRI ISMAʿILI MONUMENTS

  Peter Willey

  The principal monuments of the Nezāri Ismaʿili state, which also defined and defended its boundaries, were the exceptionally well-constructed and provisioned castles.

• ISMAʿILISM xvi. MODERN ISMAʿILI COMMUNITIES

  Azim Nanji and Zulfikar Hirji

  The Ismaʿilis consist of two main branches—the Nezāri Ismaʿilis and the Mustaʿlian Ṭayyebi Ismaʿilis. Both have their roots in the Fatimid period of Ismaʿili history.

• ISMAʿILISM xvii. THE IMAMATE IN ISMAʿILISM

  Azim Nanji

  in common with all major Shiʿite groups, the Ismaʿilis believe that the Imamate is a divinely sanctioned and guided institution.

• ISRAEL

  Multiple Authors

  : relations with Iran. OVERVIEW of the entry: i. Diplomatic and political relations. ii. The Jewish Persian community: forthcoming. iii. Iranian Studies in Israel: forthcoming. iv. Persian art collections in Israel: forthcoming.

• ISRAEL i. RELATIONS WITH IRAN

  David Menashri, Trita Parsi

  The relationship between Israel and Iran has, since the very inception of the Jewish state in 1948, been a complex function of Iran’s geo-strategic imperatives as a non-Arab, non-Sunni state.